... the expense of a slightly grainer picture. Start with the simpler pointwork and then tackle the more complex stuff when you feel more familiar with it. Good luck. Tony W. Following on from the above, I have found that when zooming in to do fine detail work with background shapes active can also slow down the response time. The trick here is to temporarily turn off the background shapes as follows. Select pad/ pad background options/ hide background shapes. They can be restored by selecting/ show background shapes. 2151_080808_470000000.png Last edited on 8 Sep 2011 18:32 by Tony W posted: 7 Sep 2011 19:30 from: Tony W Hi Martin. Thanks for the offer and it is very temping, the only snag is that the computer I have Templot installed on does not have an internet connection, although this one obviously does. This is mainly due to my paranoia about computer nasties and having to reinstal everything is such agro. Reading through your list of terms and conditions this makes me ineligible. I am more than willing ...